Meso and microplastic risk assessment in marine environments : new threats and challenges /

Meso and Microplastic Risk Assessment in Marine Environment: New Threat and Challenges in Marine Environment presents an interdisciplinary approach, offering key techniques and management of microplastic contamination in the disciplines of environmental science, fisheries, oceanography, geology, che...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Sekar, Selvam (Editor), Senapathi, Venkatramanan (Editor), Sabarathinam, Chidambaram (Editor), Viswanathan, Prasanna Mohan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, [2024]
Series:.NET developer series.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Meso- and microplastics : introduction and current scenario. Meso- and microplastics in marine environments : an overview / S. Selvam, P. Muthukumar, M.V. Prasanna, P.D. Roy, S. Chidambaram, J. Mohamed Afzal, L. Vignesh Rajkumar, K.L. Priya and Amin Ullah
  • Microplastics in the Arabian/Persian Gulf marine environment : abundance, characterization, ecotoxicological effect, and implications / S. Veerasingam, Jassim A. Al-Khayat, V.M. Aboobacker and P. Vethamony
  • Plastic wastes : source to sink / Shahin Shajahan, Karthikeyan Perumal and S. Selvam
  • Microplastics prevalence in marine and freshwater systems of Kerala, India / Hridya Thrikkaikkal, Malavika Murali, Divya P., Mariyam Rahma and Harikumar P.S.
  • Part 2. Microplastic processes in the marine environment. Dynamics of microplastics in various environments : occurrence, sources, and the impacts / Anshuman Mishra, M.V. Prasanna and S. Selvam
  • Microplastic abundance and exposure-related effects on corals, the foundation species of the marine ecosystem / Madhuraj Palat Kannankai and Suja Purushothaman Devipriya
  • Extraction methodologies of microplastics in sargassum and associated ecological risks / Morales-García Sandra Soledad, Rodríguez-González Francisco, S.B. Sujitha, Márquez-Rocha Facundo Joaquín, Ríos-Leal Elvira and M.P. Jonathan
  • Part 3. Assessment of microplastics : current trends and techniques. Assessment of microplastic pollution in the Vembar estuarine environment, southeast coast of India / G. Jeyabal, P. Udayaganesan, S. Selvam and D. Sathiya
  • Sources, abundance, and spatial distribution of marine debris pollution along beaches of Kanyakumari, southern India / Karthikeyan Perumal, Subagunasekar Muthuramalingam, S. Selvam and Stella Chellaiyan
  • Microplastic pollution in marine sea fish / P. Muthukumar and S. Selvam
  • Microplastic pollution in marine sea salts / Partheeban Emmanuel Charles, Rajendran Rajaram, S. Selvam and Sadayan Paramasivam
  • Ecological risk assessment of microplastic contamination in the Adyar River, Chennai : Distribution and source identification / J. Mohamed Afzal, P. Sanju, P. Saravanan, S. Muthusamy and S. Selvam
  • Human exposure to microplastics in saltpan and seawater : risk assessment and ecotoxicological implications / Muskan Gupta, C.N. Sridhar, T. Subramani, P. Gopinathan and Amit Karmakar
  • Adsorption of heavy metals on microplastics in marine environments / Kolandhasamy Prabhu, Partheeban Emmanuel Charles, Khalida Jabeen, Rajendran Rajaram, Paramasivam Sadayan and S. Selvam
  • Review of microplastics in groundwater : sources, identification, and health effects / Dhanu Radha Samayamanthula, Bedour Alsabti, Amjad Al-Rashidi and S. Chidambaram
  • Impacts of mesoplastics and microplastics on marine biodiversity / Suvarna S. Devi and A. Biju Kumar
  • Part 4. Management and remediation. Microplastic risks and potential threats to marine biodiversity and human beings / Priyanka Sehrawat, Ashutosh Tripathi, Manju Rawat Ranjan, Prafull Singh, Sushil Kumar Shukla and S. Selvam
  • Environmental impact induced by face mask wastes and sustainable solution to reduce this waste during the COVID 19 pandemic / K. Manikanda Bharath, Usha Natesan, Judith D. Silva, S. Selvam and S. Srinivasalu
  • Reducing, recycling, and fundamentally rethinking microplastics / Kiruthika Mohan, Vignesh Rajkumar Lakshmanan and S. Selvam
  • Present advances in strategies to mitigate the microplastics contamination / Partheeban Emmanuel Charles, Vethanayaham Jebashalomi, Rajendran Rajaram and S. Selvam.